Stars of Egypt’s golden age of performing arts captured by main photographers –from Umm Kulthum to Abdel Halim Hafez.
Egypt By way of the Lens is a four-part sequence that captures how photographers recorded the fashionable historical past of Egypt over 150 years – its kings, presidents, politics, conflicts and cinema.
The ultimate episode exhibits how photographers captured Egypt’s golden age of musical and display performances within the Nineteen Fifties, 60s and 70s. Photojournalist Samir Ghazouli remembers assembly a few of the best Egyptian artistes – like legendary singer Umm Kulthum. She generally hated the best way she appeared in images due to a thyroid drawback – and infrequently purchased the unique negatives to be able to destroy them. One other singing star was Abdel Halim Hafez however he was brutally lower down in his prime by a terminal sickness. Hafez fastidiously managed his PR picture after he fell in poor health, releasing solely specifically chosen photographs that confirmed his private ache and struggling. All of the photographers within the movie speak enthusiastically in regards to the personalities they met and replicate on how the photographs they took of those stars – who have been well-known throughout the entire of the Arab world – a way of immortality.
